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Quotes About Ideal

It was as pleasant as a dream of some idyllic past that had never truly been, but was nice to think of all the same.
~ Ellen Baker
A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in her eyes, to have an ideal, to speak and act in defiance of convention.
~ Ellen Feldman
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
~ Ellen Key
The world had known but one perfect man, and no perfect woman whatever.
~ Elmer Kelton
A true love or an ideal love is never an illusion i.e. it's a reality. Although, it's now a rare bird i.e. it's uncommon nowadays. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
DecepÅ£iile repetate presupun ambiÅ£ii inumane. Oamenii cu adev?rat triÅŸti sunt aceia care, neputând r?sturna totul, s-au acceptat ca ruin? a idealului lor.
~ Emil Cioran
Deceptiile repetate presupun ambitii inumane. Oamenii cu adevarat tristi sint acei care, neputind rasturna totul, s-au acceptat ca ruina a propriului ideal.
~ Emil Cioran
Nostalgia de um mundo sem "ideal", de uma agonia sem doutrina, de uma eternidade sem vida... O Paraíso... Mas não poderíamos existir um instante sem enganar-nos: o profeta em cada um de nós é o grão de loucura que nos faz prosperar em nosso vazio.
~ Emil M. Cioran
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
~ Emily Greene Balch
First as an ideal planted in the soil of our soul- the central part where God is- held in mind as the perfect ideal, then brought forth or born as the perfect child, the Christ consciousness.
~ Baird T. Spalding
I lived in the present. That's supposed to be a good thing, you know, an ideal, according to modern psychology. Odd, because the truth is, one lives in the present when the past is too bad to remember and the future too dreadful to contemplate.
~ Barbara Vine
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The Empire had no political cohesion, no capital city, no common laws, common finances, or common officials. It was the relic of a dead ideal.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Man himself was the formulator of the impossible Christian ideal and tried to uphold it, if not live by it, for more than a millennium. Therefore it must represent a need, something more fundamental than Gibbon's 18th century enlightenment allowed for, or his elegant ironies could dispose of.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Life is not a mere exterior movement, the movement of the being in its relations to other beings, but it is also, and especially, an internal movement from the visible to the invisible, from the real to the ideal, from the finite to the infinite.
~ baring gould sabine ii
It is a singular fact that men generally, and every man in particular, constantly endeavor to desert real life for one which is altogether artificial, artistic, and, in a word, ideal. The ideal is an image of perfection created by the soul itself.
~ baring gould sabine iii
The good, the true, and the beautiful, are three faces of the same ideal of perfection, the Infinite.
~ baring gould sabine iii
Thus there opens out to man a magnificent prospect of advance in the acquisition of truth, beauty and goodness; for if these are three aspects of the Ideal, three indefinite realities never to be attained in their entirety, because by their nature they are infinite, the progress of man in science, art and virtue is without possible limit.
~ baring gould sabine iv
Supreme happiness to reason, that is the Ideal of the intellect, is the attainment of certainty upon every subject and about all things.
~ baring gould sabine vi
The desire to love is the impulsion of the soul towards the Ideal, it is the sense of the indefinite, the perfect. It is also insatiable, for the perfect is always on the horizon, never attainable.
~ baring gould sabine vii
All the forces in the human soul, all the investigations of the mind, the artistic creations of the fancy, all refinements in the pursuit of pleasure even, are the gravitation of man's higher being towards the Ideal.
~ baring gould sabine viii
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.
~ baudelaire charles iii
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
~ Leon Jouhaux
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
~ Francis Herbert Hedge